unofficial mplayer - HowTo

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 11:51:29 +0100, Antonio <debian at fastwebnet.it> wrote:
> Kent Frazier wrote:
> 
> >Instead of 'sudo make install', you may want to use 'sudo
> >checkinstall' instead (you will have to apt-get checkinstall first).
> >
> >
> It's better to use the debian/rules included in the mplayer sources if
> you want to create a debian package. Instead of ./configure && make &&
> make install, just do:
> 
>   fakeroot debian/rules binary

I've never heard of fakeroot. Is it secure? How does it install into
directories that require root access without a password?

> 
> and mplayer will be compiled and a debian package created without the
> need to be root. My script does this (but also it installs the needed
> packages, download the sources, the skins, the fonts, the live.com
> library and permit to choose the cvs for mplayer).
> 
> If you want to add some extra option in the configure just use the
> DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS variable:
> 
>   DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="--option-of-your-choice" fakeroot debian/rules binary
> 
> - Antonio
> 
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Regards,
Russ